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Dean, Mara
- 1996 Olympic Team
- 1995 Pan American Games
- 2007 Pan American Games
- Mara Dean was only 23 years old when she represented the U.S. at the 1996 Olympics with a little horse named Hopper.
- Nicki Henley won a CCI* as a six-year-old in 2001 and followed that up with a win the following autumn at the famed Radnor Hunt CCI**.
Nicki Henley has been a long-term project. A very talented youngster imported from England by Jan Byyny and Craig Thompson through renowned British horse finding connections Susie Pragnell and Alan Robertson, Nicki Henley is a celebrity in Pragnell’s hometown of Henley.
“He (Nicki) is a total spook,” said Mara. “But he’s the biggest personality in the barn. He’s spoiled to death, drinks Gatorade out of the bottle; he’s more like a dog than a horse. Having said that, he loves to work and he loves to compete; he’s the toughest horse I’ve ever had.”
Mara recently got the ride on High Patriot, a very promising advanced horse who is only nine years old. They contested the Fair Hill International CCI*** together in October and Mara has high hopes for the Oldenburg gelding’s future.
Mara runs a busy training and sales barn in Round Hill, Virginia where she lives with her husband, Pete, and their Labrador, Scout. She has eight to 10 horses in training and is renowned in the sport for her dressage training. Many of the top riders send their horses to her when they go away for a tune-up in the first phase.
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Born: 30-July-1973
Resides: Round Hill, Virginia
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